Electric wreath candle



Jan. 7, 1930. H. L. BERMAN ELECTRIC WREATH CANDLE Filed Jan. 5. 1928 Patented Jan. 7, 1930 HARRY L. IBERMAN, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND ELECTRIC WREATI-I CANDLE Application filed January 3, 1928. Serial No. 244,344.

This invention relates to candles for electric wreaths and has for its object the provision of a simple and efficient candle which can be secured to a finished wreath or t-o a partly finished wreath with assurance that it will not come loose.

Up to the present time all means for securing the electric candle to a wreath have been objectionable in that the candle is so very readily displaced or else the device is dangerous due to the risk yof short circuiting.

The present candle is extremely simple in construction and can` therefore, be made at a very low price this being an important and almost essential feature in this particular business.

Figure 1 is a view thru a wreath employing my invention in its preferred form.

Figure 2 shows the candle before being applied to the wreath.

The candle 10 consists of a hollow cylindrical tube 11 which will be of fiber whenever the allowed expense will permit but which will more ordinarily be of pasteboard.

It will usually be colored red on the outside and will have on its periphery at the top or screw end a plurality of ornamental forms 12 representing, descending drops of grease from the candle.

Within the tube at or close to the top I have a metallainp receiving socket 111 of the type in which the bottom 15 is of insulated material and carries the usual central contact member 16, the shell and the contact 14 being connected in ordinary fashion to a two-piece attachment plug 17 by the cord 18.

. Two wires 20 and 21 are embedded in the wax or other' insulating sealing material 23 which extends from the bottom 15 of the socket to or almost to the bottom 25 of the candle tube positioning the cord 18 as well as the wires and at the same time strengthening and stiening the tube 11. In the preferred form the Wires 20 and 21 are integral having a horizontal portion 22 which naturally is optional but at the same time very convenient. This cross piece 22, if used, will obviously be an appreciable distance short of the socket to insure against short circuiting of the board or other material around which is c wound a cord 27 of red Japanese frieze which is usually ornamented with a cluster of green and white tinted lycopodium trimmed often with such a device as a frosted pine cone and a bow of ribbon 30. These parts per se have nothing to do with the invention.

In applying the candle to a wreath the wreath may be entirely formed first or the candle may be positioned lightly on the form so that the frieze cord may be slipped under* the base of the candle and after the annulus 26 is wound, the candle may then be pulled securely in place and the trimming then added. The candle, however, can be added to a complete wreath without marring in any way the beauty thereof and with no danger that the candle may become loose. The free ends of the wire are placed around the wreath and are then twisted together as at 31 soV as to bind the wire tightly against the form or core 26. The wires will readily sink into the frieze and by turning the ends of the twisted wire in as shown in the figure the securing means is entirely hidden. The socket 14; may be very small, such, for example, as the can-Vv delabra type or of miniature size but preferably is a standard size socket taking a frosted spherical electric light bulb which may, and preferably does, lie at the exact center of the wreath 33.

While I have stated in the foregoing the preferred form of my device Ido this for illustrative purposes only and wish the invention to be understood as suiiciently broadto cover any color or style of candle or in fact any hollow cylindrical tube which may or may not resemble a candle provided only that it carries an electric lamp receiving means at one end and two free ends of wire extending from therother end.

What I claim is:

1. In combination, a pair of similar forming supports to be placed together to form a hollow torus, a hollow tube, an electric lamp socket positioned Within one end of the tube, a plurality of Wires extending from the t-ube at opposite sides a suicient distance to engage the supporting members to hold4 them in position, insulating means anch-oring the socket and the Wires in the tube, and

an ornamental covering surrounding the torus and hiding the twisted ends of the Wires.

2. In combinatiomahollowpasteboard tube Y open at both ends, a metal lamp socket closing one end of the tube and fitting it snugly to strengthen it, flexible means extending from the opposite open end of the tube at such distance to embrace the usual two similar half-torus forms t0 make a Wreath, and insulating filling means closing the hollow pasteboard tube from ,the end from which the exible means project to the base of the lamp soeketrsaid filling meansanchoring the lampsoeket in place, anchoring the flexible means :in place and iniadditionstrengthening the pasteboard 4tube A against collapse.

In testimony whereof -I ax .my signature.

HARRY L. BERMAN. 

